Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged, on Sunday, to act “with strength and determination” against the Houthis, the day after a missile was launched from Yemen that struck an area near Tel Aviv, after attempts to intercept it failed, and led to the injury of 14 people.

Netanyahu said in a video clip broadcast by his office: “Just as we acted forcefully against the terrorist arms of the Iranian axis of evil, we will act against the Houthis, and the result is only one in this case.”

He added: "We are not acting alone. The United States and other countries also see that the Houthis pose a threat not only to international shipping, but to the international system. Therefore, we will act with strength, determination and cunning. I tell you, even if it takes time, the result will be the same." As is the case with other terrorist arms.”

Netanyahu continued: “What I ask of you, citizens of Israel, is to be patient, to continue showing the same tough stance that you have shown so far, and to be very careful in dealing with the instructions of the Home Front Command. I am asking you to do that, and we will do the rest.” "..

The Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom, said that 14 people were injured.

It was reported that the Magen David Adom ambulance and emergency crew provided medical treatment to 14 people who were injured by glass fragments, and some of them were taken to the hospital.

The police reported “damage” to a number of homes.

Israeli media reported that the missile landed in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv.

A spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi group, allied with Iran, said that it hit a “military target” in the Jaffa region with a “hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Since November 2023, the Houthis have been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden from the areas under their control in Yemen, in what they consider “support” for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where a devastating war has been raging between Israel and Hamas since the movement launched an unprecedented attack. On Israel on October 7, 2023.

In July 2024, an explosive drone exploded in Tel Aviv in an attack carried out by the Houthis, killing an Israeli civilian.

In response to that attack, Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Yemeni coastal governorate of Hodeidah.

The Houthi attacks on maritime shipping lines led to many disruptions in maritime traffic in this essential region for global trade.

In response to these attacks, the United States, sometimes in conjunction with Britain, launches raids against Houthi military sites in Yemen